Reporter Zhou Hui of this newspaper reported by Enshi, Hubei
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province is the youngest autonomous prefecture in the country. As of the end of 2020, the permanent population of Enshi was 3.456 million, making it one of the prefectures and prefectures that have maintained continuous growth in recent years.
In recent years, Enshi Prefecture tourism economy has developed rapidly, becoming one of the popular tourist destinations in China, and has also formed a "migratory bird economy" with the focus on summer vacation and health care. Enshi Prefecture is the "first stop" of Yangtze River entering Hubei and the birthplace of Qingjiang . It is an important water source conservation site and an important ecological barrier in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The 12th Party Congress of Hubei Province in 2022 has given Enshi Prefecture the development positioning of building a "two mountains" practice innovation demonstration zone.
In 2021, Enshi GDP was 130.2 billion yuan, ranking 11th among the 17 prefectures and prefectures in Hubei Province. The problem of "short industrial legs" is relatively prominent, and the insufficient industrialization has affected the increase in employment channels and the development of urbanization to a certain extent. How can Enshi Prefecture coordinate ecological protection and green development so that the city’s economic strength and development level can achieve a new leap? It is a major issue facing Enshi Prefecture and one of the samples worth paying attention to in promoting the exploration of the high-quality development path of Yangtze River Economic Belt .
html At the end of September, Enshi Prefecture Governor Xia Xifan accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from 21st Century Business Herald . He said that Enshi will base itself on its resource advantages and take the high-quality development of ecological and cultural tourism as the best way to achieve the "Two Mountains Transformation", strive to build a world-class tourist destination, improve the appearance of green waters and green mountains, and realize the value of gold and silver mountains; it will consolidate, extend, supplement and strengthen the chain according to the thinking of the entire industrial chain, and unswervingly follow the path of green industry and characteristic industrial path; it will take investment promotion as a breakthrough for high-quality development, focus on the business environment, promote "clearing, reducing, reducing, and releasing", and promote investment promotion breakthroughs and development breakthroughs.
Photo: Xia Xifan, Governor of Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province Photo: Mei Ke
Summer and Health Travel is popular
"21st Century": Enshi Prefecture has been one of the popular tourism purposes on social media in the past two years. What is the current development status of Enshi Prefecture's tourism, and how has it "come out of the circle" and become a popular tourist destination in the country?
Xia Xifan: According to the data, Enshi Prefecture ranked first in Hubei Province for three consecutive years in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2021, under the background of repeated epidemics, it received a total of 66.8168 million tourists throughout the year, and achieved a comprehensive tourism revenue of 42.261 billion yuan, respectively, recovering to 91.94% and 79.67% of the same period in 2019, stabilizing the basic foundation of the tourism economy. This year, Enshi's summer vacation and wellness tours continue to be popular. The number of tourists in the province exceeded the same period in 2019, and the comprehensive tourism revenue has recovered to 94% of the same period in 2019.
In terms of its attractiveness to tourists, Enshi Prefecture has rich tourism resources. Enshi has beautiful mountains and rivers, located in the boundary area of my country's second and third terrain, with a growing staircase and numerous geological wonders. It has Enshi Grand Canyon , Hefeng Pingshan Canyon, Lichuan Tenglong Cave and other core scenic spots with high popularity and unique characteristics. At present, Enshi Prefecture has a high-level scenic spot cluster of world cultural heritage , 3 5A-level scenic spots, and 19 4A-level scenic spots.
Enshi Prefecture is also a national demonstration prefecture for ecological civilization construction. It is located on the 30th north latitude line, with rich animal and plant resources. The forest coverage rate of has reached 70.34%, and the days with good air quality have remained above 350 days for many years. In addition, Enshi also has a profound national culture and folk customs, which is the birthplace of Ba culture.
In terms of climate resources, Enshi has a large altitude drop, with an average altitude of about 1,000 meters and an average annual temperature of 16.2 degrees Celsius, making it one of the most suitable areas for human habitation. Enshi's cool climate is a natural "back garden" for summer vacations in the two major "fire" cities of Wuhan and Chongqing. In July this year, the province received nearly 18 million tourists, an increase of 54.98% year-on-year, setting a single-month record.
At present, the tourism industry's contribution rate to Enshi Prefecture's GDP exceeds 15%, driving 400,000 related employment, becoming an important engine supporting the development of Enshi Prefecture.
"21st Century": Ten years ago, I remember that transportation is not very convenient. What are the improvements in transportation support now?
Xia Xifan: The improvement of the supporting service capabilities of transportation and other related services is also one of the reasons for the rapid development of tourism in Enshi Prefecture. In recent years, Enshi Prefecture's major external channels have been gradually opened. At present, there are 7 highways and 4 railways that have been built, which have been fully integrated into the national expressway network and railway network. The opening of the Badong section of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway marks Enshi's entry into the "high-speed rail era". Enshi Xujiaping Airport has opened 19 routes and 25 cities for navigation.
Enshi Prefecture has also built a thousand-kilometer green ecological tourism highway connecting core attractions, and is building a new thousand-kilometer colorful tourism highway, so that tourists can also feel the beautiful scenery on the transportation between the attractions.
At present, the Enshi Airport relocation project has officially entered the substantive promotion stage. The new airport will be planned and designed according to the needs to support the economic and social development of Enshi Prefecture in the next 30 years. The annual passenger throughput will be initially planned and designed according to the scale of 4.5 million passengers in 2030 and 9 million passengers in 2050. In addition, the Enshi section of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu High-speed Railway has completed a feasibility study report, which is an important "horizontal" of the national high-speed railway network from east to west. With the improvement of the high-speed rail network and the relocation and construction of the new airport, Enshi's transportation facilities will be further improved, and the accessibility, accessibility and comfort of Enshi's tourism will be comprehensively optimized.
"21st Century": Enshi Prefecture proposes to build a world-class tourist destination. How to achieve this goal? How to avoid some problems that arise in the rapid development of some traditional tourism purposes in the early years?
Xia Xishang: First of all, we must speed up the formulation of world-class tourist destination planning. Introduce internationally leading planning institutions to make a high-end, atmospheric, scientific and feasible world-class tourist destination planning, further clarify ideas, goals, paths, measures and projects, and plan world-class tourist destinations to a more standardized, more realistic and more operational basis.
The second is to accelerate the improvement of existing scenic spots. Accelerate the solution to the problem of insufficient entry of scenic spots. Comprehensively improve the level and level of the scenic spot, and refine and examine various facilities and scenes in the scenic spot item by item. Carefully design consumption and entertainment scenes in the scenic area to enhance tourists' happy experience.
The third is to develop and build new scenic spots with high standards. Take a new path of high-standard planning and design, high-intensity capital investment, and high-quality construction and operation, and vigorously introduce first-class tourism development, construction, management and operation enterprises in Enshi to build and operate new scenic spots.
Fourth, we will make every effort to promote the healthy development of new tourism formats. To develop the summer vacation economy in a scientific and orderly manner, we can only develop in the most suitable area. We will resolutely not take the wrong path of building high-rise buildings in rural areas, and we will be cautious in developing and building summer vacation real estate in villages. Focus on building health care projects that attract high-end consumers. Vigorously promote the upgrade of homestay . Vigorously plan and develop emerging tourism industries such as performing arts, games, sports, camping, and study.
Fifth, further improve the conditions for tourism supporting services and leave a favorable impression to all those who come to Enshi.
"21st Century": The 12th Party Congress of Hubei Province in 2022 gave Enshi Prefecture the development positioning of building a "two mountains" practice innovation demonstration zone. How can Enshi Prefecture help the construction of the demonstration zone through the development of tourism?
Xia Xifan: We regard the high-quality development of ecological and cultural tourism as the best way to achieve the transformation of the "two mountains", strive to build a world-class tourist destination, improve the appearance of green waters and green mountains, realize the value of gold and silver mountains, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in four aspects.
First, do a good job in natural landscape articles. Enshi has beautiful natural scenery and unique landscape resources. The development of these resources has formed a number of high-level tourist attractions, which directly turned green waters and green mountains into tourism products and into gold and silver mountains.
The second is to do a good job in ecological environment. Relying on mountain, canyon and river resources, we have innovative utilization methods and created event brands such as mountain marathon, dragon boat race, and bicycle challenge race to provide tourists with rich tourism consumption supply.
The third is to do a good job in climate.Give full play to Enshi's advantages in cool climate resources, work hard on the word "cool" in summer, use summer vacation tours to drive all-round tourism, and develop a cool economy that focuses on summer vacations; work hard on the word "cool" in winter, and develop an ice and snow economy that focuses on ice and snow sports.
Fourth, do a good job in health care. Develop a migratory bird economy with a focus on summer vacation and health care, summarize and improve the development model of Lichuan Sumadang and Jianshi Xiaoxihu Tourism Resort, improve forest health care tourism such as Jianshi Hawthorn Ping, Badong Iron Factory Wasteland, Xianfeng Pingbaying, etc., enrich health care formats, develop multiple categories of health care industries, promote the transformation of summer vacation and health care tourism to full-season health care tourism, and amplify the comprehensive benefits of the health care and vacation industry.
Industry is not slow to make up for shortcomings
"21st Century": Enshi's industrial foundation has always been weak. How do you view the significance of industrialization to Enshi?
Xia Xifan: The whole province has a highly unified understanding of the issue of industrial development. Solid development of the industrial economy and accelerating the process of industrialization are not only of great significance to the economic development of Enshi Prefecture, but also urgent and imperative.
First, local financial resources construction, industry is the backbone. Although Enshi's tourism industry is booming, it is an industry that enriches the people, and taxation mainly comes from industry.
Second, urbanization process, industry is the foundation. Industrialization is the main driving force for accelerating urbanization, and urbanization must be based on industrialization.
Third, to ensure people's livelihood and stable employment, industry is the main channel. Without large-scale industry, people cannot be gathered. Industry is the most stable and most important employment channel.
Fourth, the integration of the first, second and third industries, and industry is the link. We must sell the output of this land better, and transform our good ecology, cool climate and fresh air into economic advantages, which cannot be separated from industry and industrialization.
"21st Century": How to strengthen the industrial economy on the basis of taking into account the ecology?
Xia Xifan: Regarding the future development ideas, we will keep a close eye on the construction goals of the "Two Mountains" Practical Innovation Demonstration Zone, adhere to "ecological priority and green development", vigorously promote ecological industrialization and industrial ecology, unswervingly follow the path of green industry and characteristic industry, and strive to build a highland of China's selenium-rich industry, a clean energy base in central China, a bio-pharmaceutical industry base in central China, and a gathering place for green emerging industries in Wuling Mountains.
We will base ourselves on our advantageous resources and actively integrate into the national and provincial modern industrial system , consolidate, extend, supplement and strengthen the chain according to the thinking of the entire industrial chain, improve the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, and do our best to cultivate and strengthen the leading industries.
First, strengthen the clean energy industry. Enshi Prefecture is one of the key shale gas blocks in the country, with a resource volume of 4.5 trillion cubic meters. It is also the second largest hydropower base in central China and has a lot of wind energy resources. We will fully grasp the major opportunities of carbon peak and carbon neutrality policies, take wind, light and storage integration, shale gas, etc. as the main directions, and strive to reach 7 million kilowatts by 2026 and the annual shale gas output of 3 billion cubic meters.
The second is to strengthen the modern agricultural product processing industry, strive to increase the concentration of and product added value, and promote the development of industrial clusters.
The third is to strengthen the deep processing industry of selenium products. Strengthen in-depth cooperation with Chinese Academy of Sciences and other scientific research institutions, accelerate breakthroughs in the basic theoretical system, standard system and scientific and technological achievements application and transformation system, and promote the industrialization of selenoid protein and the industrialization of functional products with high-selenium plants and microorganisms as raw materials.
Fourth, strengthen the traditional Chinese medicine industry. Adhere to the main focus of modern Chinese medicine and achieve a leap from "Chinese Chinese Medicine Depot" to "Chinese Chinese Medicine Valley".
5 is to strengthen the modern tobacco industry. Enshi Prefecture has the only domestic manufacturer that can produce a full series of nicotine products and mass-produce synthetic nicotine, and has broad prospects for developing new tobacco consumer products.
"21st Century": Judging from the data, Enshi High-tech Zone accounts for a high proportion of Enshi's industrial economic development. What stage has Enshi High-tech Zone reached in creating a national high-tech zone? What are the focus of future industrial planning?
Xia Xifan: Enshi High-tech Zone started the creation of the national high-tech zone in January 2018. In March 2021, experts from the Ministry of Science and Technology conducted on-site research and demonstration on "promoting construction through promotion" and agreed to recommend Enshi High-tech Zone to apply for the creation of a national high-tech zone. The application and creation work at the provincial and state levels has been fully completed. At present, the Ministry of Science and Technology is seeking inter-ministerial joint review in conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources and other ministries and commissions. After the joint review is approved, the State Council will be submitted for approval.
Next step, we will keep a close eye on the goals of the national high-tech zone and the national high-tech zone for industrial transfer, and focus on developing the selenium industry with selenium protein (selenium polypeptide) as the core, the biopharmaceutical industry based on modern Chinese medicine, and the electronic information industry based on industrial transfer, and strive to achieve a total operating income of the "1+7" park of Enshi High-tech Zone to reach 100 billion yuan by 2026, the total number of high-tech enterprises will reach 400, and the added value of high-tech manufacturing accounts for 30% of the added value of industrial added value.
More and better go global to invest in investment
"21st Century": In terms of industrial investment, competition among regions is fierce. Hubei is a typical province with a high degree of , and Enshi is a state with a weak industrial foundation in its early years. What are the characteristics of Enshi attracting enterprises to invest and develop?
Xia Xifan: The advantages and conditions of our investment attraction are mainly reflected in four aspects:
1 is a special resource. In addition to good ecological environment and climatic conditions, many resources rank among the top in the province. The total area of the characteristic agricultural product base is nearly 7 million mu, and the area of tobacco leaves , tea, alpine vegetables , and Chinese medicinal materials are all the first in the province. The water resource reserves rank second in the province, and are the only conventional natural gas production area proven in the province, and the shale gas reserves account for half of the province.
is the location advantage. Enshi is the "bridgehead" of Wuhan urban circle connecting Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle . It is an important gateway for Hubei Province to open westward. Yangtze River Golden Waterway directly connects to the river and sea. provincial highway , national highway , railways and highways are intertwined. Enshi Airport directly flies to more than 20 large and medium-sized cities at home and abroad. The three-dimensional transportation pattern of water, land and air has been initially formed and is becoming a transportation hub and a commercial logistics center in Wuling Mountains.
The third is the industrial foundation. The leading industries such as culture, tourism, health care, , biomedical , selenium products deep processing, clean energy, electronic information, new building materials and new materials are accelerating their development, and characteristic industrial clusters are growing rapidly. In particular, by vigorously attracting major industrial projects and high-quality industrial projects, a large number of large domestic enterprises such as Luxshare Precision , Massive Group, Chuanhua Group, Gezhouba Group, Jianghan Oilfield , etc. have settled in Enshi, promoting the extension of the industrial chain in the whole province and the improvement of the industrial level.
Fourth is labor advantage. The state has a labor force of 2.1 million, rich labor resources, and the labor costs such as wages and social security are about 30% lower than those in coastal areas.
"21st Century": In March this year, the Enshi Prefecture Government System's 2022 "Weekend Economic Classroom" opened. What are the original intentions of allowing local civil servants to participate in economic classroom learning and set up courses? How effective are everyone’s learning? What are the effects of attracting investment and serving enterprises in actual work?
Xia Xifan: Since the beginning of this year, we have opened a "weekend economic classroom" to focus on the central work of the state party committee and the state government, and have "centralized charging" the leading cadres of the government system and the state department from various aspects such as economic theory, project planning, investment promotion, enterprise cultivation, industrial development, financial support, cultural tourism, etc. There have been 6 phases.The main purpose is to invite experts with practical experience in relevant fields across the country to teach, deeply get in touch with the theories and cutting-edge knowledge of economic development in related fields, actively learn from advanced experiences in developed regions or provinces, "consult and take the pulse" for Enshi development, put forward targeted opinions and suggestions, and continuously improve the theoretical literacy, decision-making level and professional ability of leading cadres to focus on economic work.
Through the "Weekend Economic Classroom", we have further expanded the horizons of the majority of party members and cadres, inspired their thinking, and greatly improved their ability to grasp economic work. For example, in terms of investment promotion, we have further clarified the key points and mastered the methods through expert guidance. Everyone's awareness of large-scale investment promotion and large-scale investment promotion has been significantly enhanced, and the "going out" investment promotion has been more frequent, more intense and better results.
Since the beginning of this year, a number of major industrial projects such as Gezhouba Group's prefabricated building and supporting industries, Hubei Huang Enye lithium battery negative electrode material production, optical materials and LED backlight industry chain, Lichuan Textile Industrial Park, Huaxin Green Building Materials, etc. have been established in Enshi.
From January to September this year, the province signed new contracts, started construction and put into production of more than 100 million yuan in industrial projects with a total of 344, 140 and 78 respectively, an increase of 189%, 41% and 39% year-on-year respectively. Among them, 46 new major industrial projects with a total value of more than 1 billion yuan were attracted and 249 industrial projects with a total value of more than 1 billion yuan were attracted. In terms of serving enterprises, since the beginning of this year, we have combined the practical activities of "going to the grassroots, observing people's conditions, resolving people's worries, and warming people's hearts" and the majority of cadres have contacted enterprises 11,474 times, collected 4,244 problems, and solved 2,401 problems, achieving tangible results for enterprises to alleviate difficulties.
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